Lucy Gao
Co-Founder at TabbyML
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucy Gao is a co-founder and seasoned product-engineering lead with 11 years of experience building AI-powered consumer and developer tools from idea to launch. Based in Sunnyvale, she leads TabbyML, focusing on open-source LLM infrastructure and developer tooling after a year as an EIR investing in tech infra and SaaS. Previously she founded TikTok’s US AI/AR Creation team as a lead PM, scaling the team rapidly and shipping intuitive smart camera experiences. Her engineering roots include image understanding at Google AI and anomaly detection at Microsoft, and she contributed early work to TensorFlow during a Google Brain internship. Lucy blends deep technical credibility with product instincts and investor-level pattern recognition, making her adept at spotting scalable ML product opportunities. Her background in math and CS from Harvey Mudd underpins a pragmatic, research-informed approach to building ML-first developer platforms.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Chelmsford High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College
Github Skills (16)
ide10
developer-tools10
ai10
codegen10
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning8
tensorflow8
data-science7
neural-network7
ml5
r-package5
copilot5
deep-neural-networks5
coding5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gyxlucy/cifar10
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
TabbyML/tabby
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
Self-hosted AI coding assistant
Contributions:81 reviews, 35 PRs, 54 pushes in 2 years
aicodegencoding-assistantcoding-languagedeveloper-experience
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